Open-hearth
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Open-hearth is an adjective meaning Describing a reverberatory furnace used to make steel, usually in mass-produced quantities.
Meaning
Describing a reverberatory furnace used to make steel, usually in mass-produced quantities.
More Meanings
- Designating the steel so produced.
- Describing an open hearth in the home, especially in premodern centuries when such hearths were more common.
Example Sentences
a then-new steel mill with three large open-hearth furnaces
the little tricks of open-hearth cooking that she had nearly forgotten after years behind a coal range
Early open-hearth steels, beating crucible steels on price but often unable to match their quality, were nonetheless well suited to many applications where extreme strength was superfluous but low cost was essential.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include forged, wrought-iron, wroughtiron, solid-drawn, steel, drop-forged.
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